Win 10 Optimize Drives say I have SSD when in fact it is a HDD


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    Win 10 Optimize Drives say I have SSD when in fact it is a HDD


    I was curious to see if my C: drive needed defragmenting so I opened Optimize Drives to find that my C: and partition D: all part of the same HDD are labeled as Solid State Drive but I do not have any . As can be seen from the screenshot The Analyze and Optimize buttons are greyed out. So my question is, is my C: drive being optimized automatically? Why does Optimize Drives says that my C: and D: drives are SSD when in fact they are HDD?
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    Hi, scopio. Have you gone into your BIOS and seen how BIOS identifies the disk? Does it correctly identify it?

    ALSO: Give this a try from an elevated (admin) command prompt: winsat formal

    This may reset how Windows assesses that disk.
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    Word Man said:
    Hi, scopio. Have you gone into your BIOS and seen how BIOS identifies the disk? Does it correctly identify it?

    ALSO: Give this a try from an elevated (admin) command prompt: winsat formal

    This may reset how Windows assesses that disk.
    The BIOS did identify the disks as HDD.
    I seem to have solved my problem with Optimize Drives by setting the Optimize Drives Service to start automatically and it now reports my drives as HDD rather than SSD! Nevertheless I did run winsat formal in elevated (admin) command prompt as you suggested report attached plus screenshots. Drive (H) shown on one of the screenshots is a card reader connected to upload the BIOS picture.

    Thanks for your help.
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    You're welcome, scopio. Glad it's sorted!
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    scopio said:
    The BIOS did identify the disks as HDD.
    I seem to have solved my problem with Optimize Drives by setting the Optimize Drives Service to start automatically and it now reports my drives as HDD rather than SSD! Nevertheless I did run winsat formal in elevated (admin) command prompt as you suggested report attached plus screenshots. Drive (H) shown on one of the screenshots is a card reader connected to upload the BIOS picture.

    Thanks for your help.

    What do you mean "Optimize Drives Service to start automatically? I'm still having this issue and I don't even know what winsat is, but it crashes when I attempt to run it.
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  6. Posts : 217
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
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    acarde said:
    What do you mean "Optimize Drives Service to start automatically? I'm still having this issue and I don't even know what winsat is, but it crashes when I attempt to run it.
    Search "services" in Cortana
    Open it
    Find Optimize drives right click on it and properties
    On startup type, change to automatically

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    Here it's set as manual (presumably default value) and isn't even running and no issues, it detects my SSD and my other 3 HDDs properly. Besides you can optimize (trim) a SSD, the button isn't greyed out :)
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    acarde said:
    What do you mean "Optimize Drives Service to start automatically? I'm still having this issue and I don't even know what winsat is, but it crashes when I attempt to run it.
    Have a look at these two pages that explain what winsat is;
    winsat formal
    Using WinSAT (Windows)
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